Robbing the Government
■:- ; ..■■■-. .-. :,:■■- .. ' ;■ ::.. ->n.:ihii (PBK UNITBD PBKBB ASSOCIATION^ ,'? '! -ilrf : ■..-..-. ••.:-. Oahabit, This ©iyS I*'*1 *'* r * William Charles MeDermctt, who has & : been arrested here on a charge of ■'eflU*''* bczziing £40 belonging to' the G-qvern-ment Insurance Department, Wellington; 5i wa» formerly a clerk in that Department'. "~ The money was embezzled about aj yea? \ ago. He is : supposed to have come here i V by a sailing vessel a few weeks ago, and passed under the name of Robinson. H6 j was arrested at Eakanni, a few miles ; j from Oamarn, on Monday night, byiU Detective O'Brien, lie was brought before the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday and remanded to Wellington. r " McUermott who is supposed- to be : 'well L * connected in Victoria, where his father is a leading barrister, does not deny that he is the man wanted, nor that he committed J * the offence. '"" : / ',.
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 54, 8 May 1884, Page 2
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142Robbing the Government Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 54, 8 May 1884, Page 2
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